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    From "lance Lyon" @1:2320/100 to All on Tue Dec 23 08:04:02 2003
    Hi guys,

    After 16 years, I've finally got myself an A2000 (well, A2500 actually, but
    the processor card had already been sold seperately).

    It has a Kickstart 2 rom installed, but I have already ordered a 3.1 rom for
    it & also has an A2090 SCSI controller. Apart from that, it's a bog standard revision 4.4 mobo.

    Some questions :

    What's the best option for a graphics card ? I want to connect directly to
    an (s)vga monitor, rather than use my ageing 1081 (which is developing
    problems with the red pot).

    What's the maximum capacity hard drive I can add ?

    What options are available for network cards - I'd like to bring the machine into the windows workgroup here (3 XP Prp machines) ?

    Also, for the time being at least, I can t/fer stuff direct from one of the PC's via null modem cable, however, one small problem - no terminal proggy
    on the Amiga :-( Does anyone have a floppy containing such a beastie that they'd be willing to send ? (I'm in Oz, but would obviously be happy to pay postage & costs).

    cheers,

    Lance




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  • From John Kelly@1:2320/100 to "lance Lyon" on Tue Dec 23 14:28:04 2003
    Hello "Lance.

    Replying to a msg dated 23 Dec 03 08:04, from you to All.

    Not at all an expert on it, I could be wrong, but I read an advert on eBay for someone selling one of these only a couple of days ago, and they said max harddisk capacity was 4GB.. Not sure if it's still there, but do a search on Amiga on ebay.com.au


    John

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  • From Wendell Watanabe@1:2320/100 to Lance Lyon" Llyon on Wed Dec 24 02:12:54 2003
    On the subject of Amiga 2000 questions, Lance Lyon" llyon had
    this to say...

    Some questions :

    What's the best option for a graphics card ? I want to connect
    directly to an (s)vga monitor, rather than use my ageing 1081
    (which is developing problems with the red pot).

    Not sure if they are still available (and most certainly not new), but
    I have been very happy with my Picasso IV.

    What options are available for network cards - I'd like to bring
    the machine into the windows workgroup here (3 XP Prp machines) ?

    again, not sure about availability, but the Ariadne II is working fine
    here.

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  • From Benny Pedersen@1:2320/100 to John Kelly on Sat Dec 27 08:27:48 2003
    Hello John!

    23 Dec 03 14:28, John Kelly wrote to "Lance Lyon" <llyon@intas.net.au>:

    Not at all an expert on it, I could be wrong, but I read an advert on eBay for someone selling one of these only a couple of days ago, and
    they said max harddisk capacity was 4GB.. Not sure if it's still
    there, but do a search on Amiga on ebay.com.au

    its true as long we don't use sfs or nsd, remember 2 in the potence of 32 ?

    if sfs or nsd is used we go to 2 in potence of 64 :-)

    yes its true 2 in 64, still loving amiga, wow :-)

    nsd is standard from os 3.5, before it was a addon to make "bigger" harddisk usable on os 3.1 and below, ffs is btw updated to nsd style, no problemo :)

    Regards Benny

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  • From Dennis Smith@1:2320/100 to "lance Lyon" on Wed Dec 31 16:37:02 2003
    Hi guys,

    After 16 years, I've finally got myself an A2000 (well, A2500 actually,
    but
    the processor card had already been sold seperately).

    It has a Kickstart 2 rom installed, but I have already ordered a 3.1
    rom for
    it & also has an A2090 SCSI controller. Apart from that, it's a bog
    standard
    revision 4.4 mobo.

    Some questions :

    What's the best option for a graphics card ? I want to connect directly
    to
    an (s)vga monitor, rather than use my ageing 1081 (which is developing problems with the red pot).

    My old 1081s has the same problem. The Picasso96.guide has a list of Gfx
    cards that are supported, IIRC its' version 2.

    I have a Merlin card that works real well with all the Nec and Proview
    VGAs and a PicassoII, also very good. The A2K is dead right now. :-/

    ...

    Lance



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    From "lance Lyon" @1:2320/100 to All on Thu Jan 1 14:07:02 2004
    Hi Dennis,

    I have a Merlin card that works real well with all the Nec and Proview
    VGAs and a PicassoII, also very good. The A2K is dead right now. :-/

    Just been trawlling eBay, there are graphics cards available, unfortunately, most are in the US & they won't deliver overseas :-) Bugger :-) I'll just
    keep waiting. I have got one of the cute little Commodore VGA adapters on
    the way from Germany, so this will have to suffice until I get a decent
    card. Course, games will be problematical but no big deal.

    The good news is, the 3.1 chip is in & working just fine & I've picked up a
    ram expansion board with 8 mb installed, so the machine is slowly beig
    brought up to a usable standard - next purchase is gonna be an accelerator board of some description - and yeah, some paint for the case, she's looking
    a little sad!

    cheers,

    Lance


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